Ethereum [ETH] leads the green market; records a growth of more than 10% in 24 hours

The new year brought a new position for Ethereum [ETH] as the markets become green. The currency that was the third largest until recently, took XRP to become the second largest currency in the list of top-10 cryptocurrencies. XRP slipped into third place while ETH continues to grow with wide margins.

Source: Coin Market Cap

At the time of printing, ETH was valued at $ 150.22, with a market capitalization of $ 15.6 billion. The currency recorded a 24-hour trading volume of $ 2.7 billion, an increase of 10.40% in the last 24 hours. The currency has grown gradually over the last few days and its overall peak was 15.36% in a week. The currency continues to pump 1.74% in one hour.

The currency is exchanged in high volumes on various exchanges. The exchange to record the highest volume for ETH is OEK. It recorded a trading volume of $ 166 million on the ETH / BTC pair. OEX was followed by OKEx, which reported a volume of $ 114 million on the ETH / USDT pair. The third position was taken by Huobi, with a volume of $ 102 million on the ETH / USDT pair.

The community was losing its confidence in the currency because it seemed to have stagnated for a long time, however, at the start of the new year, the currency prospered and strengthened the community's belief in the current second cryptocurrency.

Ethereum has also been in the news recently when its co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, was asked to contribute to the review of Tron's white paper from the founder and CEO of Tron [CEO] Justin Sun. On this, a Tron enthusiast, Misha Lederman, had said:

"A developer like @VitalikButerin should definitely consider starting to work with a visionary, entrepreneur, CEO, student of history and politics, under Jack Ma and many others, like @JustinSunTron, in order to grow together the adoption and blockchain technology ".